Chapter 1

Valentine's Day had come and all around Adventure Bay, love was in the air. Everyone but one pup was excited for this day. This pup was Marshall. His birthday happened to be on Valentine's Day, but it was overlooked as today was the day of love. At the lookout, all the pups were up extra early to help prepare for the party that night, except for Marshall who was awake, but in his pup house.

"Happy Birthday to me…" Marshall was in a very sad state, but he put a mask of happiness on when Chase came into his pup house.

"Morning Marshall!"

"Hey Chase."

"Ready for Valentine's Day?"

"Yeah. You finally going to ask out Skye?"

"I will try."

"Don't try, do."

Chase nodded at what Marshall said and left. Marshall decided to get up, revealing his sad face again. He had to put on a happy face as Everest walked into his pup house.

"Hey Marshall, can I ask you something?"

"Sure Everest." Marshall had a huge crush on Everest and thought that she was going to ask him to the dance.

"I really like Rocky, but I think he likes Tundra. Can you ask if he likes me?" Marshall still put on a happy face, but inside he felt his heart shatter into millions of pieces.

"I can try." Marshall made his way over to Rocky.

"Hey Rocky."

"Hey Marshall."

"Can I ask you a question?"

"I'm all ears."

"Do you like Everest?"

This question had Rocky take a couple of steps back, but then he knew that he couldn't ignore the question.

"I d-d-d-do. I know you like her too."

"She likes you, not me. You should go ask her to the dance."

"I will, thanks Marshall!" Rocky gave Marshall a hug, then went to talk to Everest.

"Hey Everest."

"Hey Rocky, what's up?"

"Do you want to go to the Valentine's Day Dance with me?"

"YES! YES! YES!"

Everest hugged Rocky and Marshall saw this. He couldn't keep a straight face on and looked sad. He went to his pup house and started to clean up. He sat down and started to cry, when he heard some noise from behind.

"Marshall dude, what's wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Marshall happened to have a picture of his family in his paw. Zuma saw this and asked Marshall about it.

"Do you miss your parents?"

*sniffling* "…Yeah…" Zuma hugged Marshall, who has since stopped crying.

"It's okay, dude. We are here. You can talk to us about any of your problems." Chase, Skye, Rocky, Rubble, Tundra, and Everest saw Zuma and Marshall hugging, but didn't want to go up because they wanted to give them privacy. Zuma and Marshall then stopped hugging and Zuma left Marshall's pup house and Marshall closed the door and locked it. Chase, Skye, Rocky, Rubble, Tundra, and Everest went up to Zuma to ask what they talked about.

"Zuma, what were you and Marshall talking about?" asked Chase

"Marshall just misses his parents. He seems very hurt. I don't know how he has such a great attitude when things like that are on his mind."

"He always seems to care about us more than himself." Said Chase.

"Yeah." All the pups agreed.

Immediately after, Marshall came out and saw that he was the usual pup that they always see. Marshall looked into the direction of the group and waved, but he tripped over Rubble's food bowl and went rolling down the driveway. All the pups started giggling when Marshall got up. He looked over and saw that they were laughing. Marshall felt embarrassed and ran into the lookout to see if he could get away. After a minute, the pups gathered their composure and saw that Marshall was gone. They walked into the lookout to see Marshall helping Ryder with some of the decorations.

"Hey Marshall!" said Chase. Marshall didn't hear them walking up behind.

"AHHH!" Marshall went into the air and landed in Ryder's arms.

"Thanks Ryder." Marshall gave him a lick, then went back to clean up some loose toys in the lookout. Meanwhile, Ryder was setting up the table and he was confused.

"I feel like I'm forgetting something. Oh well, I need to finish soon." Ryder then focused back on the party. Marshall went up to the top of the lookout and set up the dance floor when he accidentally hit the control panel and a disco ball popped down and music started playing. Ryder came up and saw this and knew that Marshall found out about the disco ball. Marshall saw that Ryder was a little upset with him.

"I'm sorry, Ryder."

"It's okay, Marshall." Marshall knew that Ryder was upset. He knew that he just made a mess of things and decided to go downstairs. When he reached the ground floor, he tripped over some streamers and rolled out the door. When he got up, he heard laughing. He walked by the wall, out of sight, and heard talking of the pups.

"Marshall's very clumsy." Said Zuma.

"He's dumb." Said Rocky.

"Rocky, that's not nice. It was an accident." Said Tundra.

"Yeah, he is such a klutz." Said Chase.

"Stop making fun of Marshall." Said Tundra.

"Marshall doesn't deserve to be on the PAW Patrol." Said Rubble.

"RUBBLE!" yelled Tundra.

"Tundra, calm down. We are just joking." Said Skye.

"I don't care. That is not nice." Said Tundra.

"Wow…Marshall needs a girl to defend him!" said Everest.

"Everest, stop." Said Tundra.

"Tundra, calm down."

The pups stopped talking and decided to go outside. When they walked out, they saw Marshall.

"Marshall…"

Marshall was upset and he was being approached by Chase. He turned around and ran into his pup house. All the pups walked towards his pup house and knocked on his door.

"Marshall? Open up." Said Everest.

"Go away Everest."

"Marshall, talk to us. We care. You are part of the PAW Pa…" said Rubble, who was interrupted by Marshall.

"Stop changing your story. I know how you all feel about me. I know that only one pup cares about me." Marshall opened up and saw that he didn't cry.

"Tundra, thank you for caring about me. You are a true friend." Said Marshall. He smiled at Tundra, but didn't show any emotion passing the other pups. Marshall walked up and went to Ryder.

"Hey Ryder, can I talk to you?"

"Sure Marshall, what's up?"

"I have two things. One: I am sorry about the disco ball."

"No problem. It was a mistake."

"Please be completely honest with this one." Ryder had a confused and concerned face as Marshall took in a lot of air. He breathed out, then continued. "Two: Do you think I deserve to be on the PAW Patrol?"

Ryder was stunned at the question. He sat down and put Marshall on his lap, petting him.

"Of course, Marshall. You are the only fire pup and we need you for that job. You are as important as all the other pups."

"Thank you, Ryder."

"Can I ask why you asked this?"

"The pups were talking and Rubble said I don't deserve being on the PAW Patrol." Ryder became enraged and Marshall noticed this. "Ryder, don't. Let's focus on the party."